Media Literacy (Mediawijsheid in dutch)
Media Literacy is a digital teaching package developed for primary school education in the Netherlands. The Media Literacy package is completely webbased. It includes six modules, each focusing on different aspects of internet and television. The lesson material is developed with the dutch development goals for primary education in mind (goals 34, 35 and 37). The next steps taken at the moment, together with UPC and Liberty Global are: - development of schoolcompetition on Media Literacy - TV app on Media Literacy for parents and their children, for the home-situation - Implementation of the learning package in other European countries The Media Literacy teaching package has received positive feedback from the specialist press. In its January edition, COS wrote: ‘The Media Literacy’ teaching package is very well put together. Teachers, pupils and their parents can gain a lot from it.”